{"id":441,"date":"2011-04-07T21:11:50","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/?p=441"},"modified":"2011-04-07T21:11:50","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T01:11:50","slug":"hes-got-the-whole-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/2011\/04\/hes-got-the-whole-world\/","title":{"rendered":"He&#8217;s Got the Whole World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Composer (and, it could be noted, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vogue.co.uk\/news\/daily\/110321-storm-models-signs-eric-whitacre-.aspx\">fashion hot shot<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/eric_whitacre.html\">TED intellectual<\/a>) Eric Whitacre&#8217;s latest virtual choir has been released upon the internet.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6WhWDCw3Mng\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p>For whatever precision the performance might lose due to the method&#8211;many voices in individual bedrooms spanning the globe&#8211;it gains exponentially by connecting them, easily surpassing any previously heard live performance by the sheer impact of linking so many persons at latitudes and longitudes around the world. Choir: Ultimate Edition, anyone?<\/p>\n<p>Go ahead, just try not to tear up when the graphics start spinning and you see all those faces staring back at you. Just try and be cool when the power of technology demonstrates the pure good and beauty people can band together to create.<\/p>\n<p>The credits, which move along in a pretty small point size and at a pretty good clip, make up just under half the video length. That&#8217;s the reverberative power of today&#8217;s technology, people. What will you do with it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composer (and, it could be noted, fashion hot shot and TED intellectual) Eric Whitacre&#8217;s latest virtual choir has been released upon the internet. For whatever precision the performance might lose due to the method&#8211;many voices in individual bedrooms spanning the globe&#8211;it gains exponentially by connecting them, easily surpassing any previously heard live performance by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":442,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/gap\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}